Cars, Homes Flooded By Water Main Break In San Francisco - See more at: http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal

[AsahinaKimi]

Source: KCBS Bay Area


SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — Fire crews were at the scene of a water main break that caused major flooding in San Francisco’s Inner Parkside neighborhood early Wednesday morning, fire officials said.

The water main break, at the intersection of 15th Avenue and Wawona Street, was reported to fire crews at 2:36 a.m.


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This morning four News helicopters in the area buzzing roof high over houses to catch this story?

[Auggie]

1. A city not used to deluges ...

those below-level garages and rental units seem like a good idea until there's a flood. Just wait until the you-know-what.

[SCVDem]

2. Infrastructure?

We don't need to upgrade any stinkin' infrastructure!

I guess it needs to be a sewer line or bridge collapse to get anyones attention.

[AndyA]

3. My first thought as well

Let's not spend money now to update our infrastructure, which is beyond its life expectancy in many areas, let's delay it so something can fail, which will cost more to fix.

Just ignore the aging water lines, crumbling bridges, outdated power grid, and keep filling in the potholes on roads and highways, because we can't afford to fix them. However, we can afford to subsidize oil companies with corporate welfare, even though they'd still make hundreds of millions in profits each quarter.

Let's not spend money on infrastructure now while interest rates are low, because it would put people to work, increase the tax base, and help our economy while also improving things that desperately need it. We've got to make sure the multi-millionaires get to keep more of their money, because they do so much good with it...why, they've created millions of new jobs over the last decade with all the tax cuts...

Oh, wait...that didn't happen. It's just insane that we ignore things that can be public safety issues so that we can support big corporations and the wealthy with hand outs. They hate food stamps, welfare, unemployment...yet they get money from the government as well, so what's the difference?

(The difference is they're the ones getting it, and not someone else.)

[arcane1]

5. You left out "ignore the leaking gas lines until one of them explodes"

It is California, after all

[AndyA]

8. Are leaking gas lines hazardous to public safety?

Wouldn't that money be better spent on an oil subsidy, so they can drill, baby, drill more in the Gulf? After all, there hasn't been a major accident there in a few years.

[arcane1]

4. This also happened a couple of years ago around 10th and Brannan...

and flooded out my favorite theater while they were in mid-performance.

I hope this isn't becoming a trend!

Feeling a little extra-thankful that I live on the 9th floor.

[truthisfreedom]

6. That's great, especially when you have an inflatable dinghy on hand!

With a set of plastic oars, of course. 8^D

[arcane1]

7. That's why I sleep in an inflatable dinghy :)

[kimbutgar]

9. This have become a common occurence in SF.

In November the water main broke at the end of my street, I am on a hill and it went down. They fixed it and two weeks later another pipe burst further of the street. The water department said that the cold weather has been the cause of this and they are repairing pipes as they break. My neighborhood was built in 1948 thereabouts and the pipes are just now being replaced. We could really use Federal money to upgrade the pipes but the GOP in DC is opposed to any infrastructure funding of major projects. And seeing it's SF I doubt we'll ever get the money so it will be a mickey mouse repair job.